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Efficiency in typical usage While zen4 is a bit more efficient in heavy MT at stock settings raptor lake actually pulls ahead in efficiency in laods that are more lightly threaded. As we see the 7950x draws more power when working on a single-thread while delivering significantly worse...

If you want to get a lot of free time now you could just become a neet for a while and live off welfare. What you will notice then is that it doesn't actually make your life great. Sure you can play videogames all day but who wants to do that? Generally the quality of life goes down as you...

A general problem with higher education is the massive amount of time it will seep out of your life. You end up barely having time for your hobbies or actually making a living for yourself. All that work just go get some certification so you maybe can get some job you don't really want in the...

Are you referring to the phones? I haven't looked into these.

We are now seeing the result of having games be made only for the next generation and it isn't exactly great. We are seeing titles limited to an consistently awful 30fps which is basically unplayable (60fps is bad enough). These games are not even that great in terms of gameplay, if they had...

I was right about 13900KF > 13900K Looking at the top cinebench R23 overclocks that didn't utilize liquid nitrogen we see that KF CPUs are indeed reaching higher overclocks. This probably means that intel is already saving many of the best chips for 13900KS while not letting anyone buy that now...

I think we all need to have at least some goal in life. Something to work towards.

Why chiplets and dual-gpu cards doesn't make sense anymore The dual-gpu approach (such as raden HD 5970) made sense when GPUs were low in power-draw and reviewers rarely did any proper tests for frame consistency. Hardly any new games support more than one GPU anymore and the chiplet approach...

AMD figures: 7900XTX is slower than 4090 It will however have a MSRP of just 999$ and draw less power. AMD failed to beat nvidia in the titles they cherrypicked for the presentation, it will be even worse in the actual games people play. Approximate performance based on their claims from the...

asus prime wifi ddr5 Z790-p vs z690-p When looking closely at the board we can spot minor differences, they didn't just replace the chipset (and the pci express from chipset upgrades).

msi pro z790-p seems like an improved z690-a They have tweaked the VRM-cooling and upgraded an NVME slot and pci express slot from gen3 to gen4 This means that z790-p is probably a fine motherboard given that the z690-a basically did everything needed of of a z690 motherboard. The main issue...

Why you shouldn't 'invest' into an AM5 platform now First off all buying hardware isn't actually an investment if you don't buy it to earn more money back. If you are buying something that will just depreciate in value without making you any money it isn't actually an investment. It's just you...

MSI PRO Z790-P While this is a budget board from msi it does almost everything you want from a motherboard. The main issue besides the fact that you cannot buy it yet is that it doesn't support more than 7000 MT/s officially. That however does not mean that DDR5 7200 isn't going to work, we just...

The cheap option that might work: gigabyte z790 UD AX/AC Gigabyte has a worse reputation than asus due to them screwing up badly in the past but if you want a cheap board with official support for DDR5-7600 it might be the only viable option...

Asus prime z790-p The DDR5 version of this board looks great and reviewers (for linux) found it to work just fine. https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-i9-13900k Now we have 2 customer reviews on newegg and it's bad Here the issue seems to be that 2 of the slots have bad signal...

https://www.techspot.com/review/2554-intel-core-i7-13700k/

MT comparisons While intel did destroy AMD in ST AMD does ok in MT. AMD is more expensive but you also get less power-consumption at stock. When you push both hard via heavy overclocking (you need a custom-loop for that) the 13900K does beat AMD with a comfortable margin but when you use more...

Gaming performance at 1440P with a 4090 This is very much relevant since a lot of people are going to play at 1440p rather than just 1080p. Of course raptor lake is faster here but the difference in fps is a lot smaller than it would have been with a better GPU like the 5090 or an overclocked...

5800x3d has been cut in price This happened right after the raptor lake launch. It's not around the same price as the 13600K which makes it justifiable if you already own an AM4 board and just want a better CPU and only play games...

Verhofstadt: EU unfit for emerging 'new Age of Empires', time to act It has been eight months since the war started and a new period in human history was born on our live TV screens. After the Cold War that started in Yalta, and after the victory of liberal democracy that culminated in the fall...